Quotes about Protest

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.

Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk, it's the universal protest against Time. Just remember, dear Friends: What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. // The Year of the Flood

Boy, the young are angry at us. Good. This is what usually changes the world, although it's a new experience to be the us the young are mad at.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.

The pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.